Gaim with wireless and ethernet

SuperNate · 09-09-2005, 12:54 PM

Hello. I have a Dell Inspiron 600m with both a wireless card and a regular cat5 ethernet. My problem is that when I run gaim, it only works when I'm connected to the internet on the wireless. When I try to connect to the wall with the other device deactivated, it just won't connect.

david_ross · 09-09-2005, 01:13 PM

Can you use other internet based services on the wired card?

Gaim shouldn't be any different.

What do you connect through to get to the internet?

SuperNate · 09-09-2005, 04:15 PM

Yes. I'm actually posting using the wired card right now. I can update SuSE no problem with it and nothing else gives me problems. I'm connecting through the network at my college. We have a few spots where they've installed Apple AirPorts for wireless. There are proxy settings for access to http and https but they don't have any proxy settings for chat services such as aim or irc.

SuperNate · 09-09-2005, 04:43 PM

Oh and if you mean by internet services other chat services, no, I can't connect to anything like that. However everything works fine wirelessly. It almost seems as if it's seeing the wireless device and not the wired.

Snowbat · 09-09-2005, 05:19 PM

Sounds like they're blocking access to AIM on the wired network but not on wireless?

david_ross · 09-10-2005, 07:06 AM

I'd agree with Snowbat. A network based application doesn't need to know anything about devices, that is all handled by the kernel routing table.

I suggest you contact your local network administrator and see if they can confirm that it is blocked.

SuperNate · 09-13-2005, 01:49 PM

Well, I would assume that except that I can get gaim to work just fine on either from Windows on this machine. So I know they're not blocking acces to aim on it.

david_ross · 09-14-2005, 12:40 PM

Do you have any firewall rules in place on your machine?

Can you post the output from:
iptables -nL

And the full output from "ifconfig" and "route -n" when you are on both the wireless and wired networks.

SuperNate · 09-28-2005, 06:59 PM

well, just so you know, I did a reinstall of linux with just Gnome and Gaim works perfectly fine. Go figure.
Thanks for everyone's help anyway.